Jeannie wrote:
"Ben" wrote in message
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Pulling down some old fence panels to replace them today, I disturbed a
large number of insects with crab-like pincers on their rear end. They
looked like scorpions, but I wasn't aware we had any in the UK. What
could they have been?


I once found one of these creatures in my bath and hysterically rang my mum
AND my dad and made them come to my house as I too thought I had discovered
a scorpion. Much laughing at my expense ensued when they realised that it
was in fact an earwig. I am blushing with the embarrassment of it all just
typing this message.

I really am surprised that I'd never seen one before. Perhaps its down
to different conditions from region to region - based on experience in
other parts of the country I was expecting hoards of woodlice to come
scurrying out, yet there were none.